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Music
Casey counted them down and we danced to them thru the night.
Here is the Billboard list of the top 40 songs of 1976.
01. Kiss And Say Goodbye - Manhattans
02. A Fifth of Beethoven - Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band
03. You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine - Lou Rawls
04. Love Hangover - Diana Ross
05. Silly Love Songs - Paul McCartney And Wings
06. Disco Duck - Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots
07. Disco Lady - Johnnie Taylor
08. I Write The Songs - Barry Manilow
09. Don't Go Breaking My Heart - Elton John And Kiki Dee
10. December 1963 (Oh What A Night) - Four Seasons
11. Shake Your Body - K.C. & The Sunshine Band
12. Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
13. Welcome Back Kotter - John Sebastian
14. If You Leave Me Now - Chicago
15. Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale
16. You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees
17. Get Up And Boogie - Silver Connection
18. Love Machine - Miracles
19. Low Down - Boz Scaggs
20. Misty Blue - Dorothy Moore
21. Theme From SWAT - Rhythm Heritage
22. Turn The Beat Around - Vickie Sue Robinson
23. Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover - Paul Simon
24. Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band
25. Love Rollercoaster - Ohio Players
26. All By Myself - Eric Carmen
27. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
28. Convoy - C.W. McCall
29. Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel - Tavares
30. Boogie Fever - Sylvers
31. I Love Music - O'Jays
32. Lonely Night (Angel Face) - Captain And Tennille
33. More, More, More - Andrea True Connection
34. Dream Weaver - Gary Wright
35. Sweet Thing - Rufus
36. Let 'Em In - Paul McCartney And Wings
37. I'd Really Love To See You Tonight - England Dan And John Ford Coley
38. The Rubberband Man - Spinners
39. Walk Away From Love - David Ruffin
40. Sara Smile - Hall And Oates
SPORTS
Super Bowl X
Pittsburg Steelers defeated Dallas Cowboys (21-17)
World Series
Cinncinnati Reds defeated New York Yankees (4-0)
NBA Championship
Boston Celtics defeated Phoenix Suns (4-2)
Wimbledon
Women: Chris Evert-Lloyd d. Evonne Goolagong Cawley (6-3 4-6 8-6)
Men: Bjorn Borg d. Llie Nastase (6-4 6-2 9-7)
Kentucky Derby Champion
Bold Forbes
NCAA Basketball Championship
Indiana defeated Michigan (86-68)
NCAA Football Champions
Pittsburg (12-0-0)
MOVIES
All the President's Men won Best Picture of the year
The runner ups were:
Bound for Glory
Network
Rocky
Taxi Driver
Television
1. Happy Days (ABC)
2. Laverne & Shirley (ABC)
3. M*A*S*H (CBS)
4. Charlie's Angels (ABC)
5. The Big Event (NBC)
6. The Six Million Dollar Man (ABC)
7. Baretta (ABC)
8. One Day at a Time (CBS)
9. Three's Company (ABC)
10. All in the Family (CBS)
NEWS
January 21 - The first commercial Concorde flight takes off.
February 4 - 1976 Winter Olympics open in Innsbruck, Austria.
March 3 - Fleetwood Mac records Rumours, which will be a blockbuster album in 1977.
April 1 - Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
April 23 - Powerful punk rock group The Ramones release their first album which starts a new form of music.
July 3 - Supreme Court of the United States rules on Gregg v. Georgia and decides that death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual and is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment.
July 4 - Tina Turner leaves Ike Turner.
July 17 - The 1976 Summer Olympics begin in Montreal, Canada.
July 29 - In New York City, the "Son of Sam" pulls a gun from a paper bag killing one and seriously wounding another in the first of a series of attacks that terrorized the city for the next year.
August 4 - First outbreak of Legionnaire's disease kills 29 at the American Legion convention in Philadelphia.
September 17 - Space Shuttle Enterprise rolled out.
November 2 - U.S. presidential election, 1976: Jimmy Carter defeats incumbent Gerald Rudolph Ford to become first candidate from deep south to win since the Civil War.
November 26 - Little known company Microsoft is officially registered with the Office of the Secretary of the State of New Mexico.
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